Bishop E.W. JACKSON
Memo to the Senate: Stop the Marxist Takedown of Our Military! The U.S. Senate must reject Marxist leaders for the U.S. Military Services
E.W. JACKSON
Marine Corps veteran, retired attorney and graduate of Harvard Law School, American politician, podcast host and commentator
It's always an honor to be with you and the work that you're doing and to see so many of my friends who have spoken up here today. So let me just say you're right. I actually served in the United States Marine Corps as an enlisted officer, and I served beginning in 1970, which, of course, was coming right out of the 60s, which was, of course, a halcyon period, a period of riots and racial upheaval. And yet I cannot remember a single incident while I was in the Marine Corps of Racial strife.
Now, I'm not saying those things have never happened or that they couldn't happen, but even after the 1960s, we were able to serve as a cohesive unit. And remember, the only thing that we were all thinking about was Vietnam, whether we would have to go and having each other's backs if we had to go.
Now it turns out I did not get orders to go to Vietnam, but my friends who had joined earlier did. And of course, I had buried some of those friends who suffered from mustard gas attacks and other maladies as a result of their time and service and buried some who died in combat. And I'll tell you, I am incensed. I am incensed over what is happening in our military.
And by the way, let me just straighten out the record, Frank. I think, you know, you informed me about Brown and I have publicly denounced him and publicly denounced an effort to appoint him as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. So there's more than at least one at least one, or two, candidates for the presidency who have done that.
And, of course, I come at this from a little bit different perspective, and that is a Judeo-Christian perspective. I really believe that our success as a nation, the success of our military, is because we were rooted and grounded in absolute truth. We believe that certain things were true and certain things were false, certain things were right and certain things were wrong. And that we had a transcendent worldview that we were ultimately accountable to someone above ourselves, above our own desires, our own lusts, our own ambitions.
And the military, it seems to me, is the preeminent institution for that kind of selfless service. And I grew in the United States Marine Corps. I say I went at a boy. I came out a man. I went in a kid thinking probably only about myself. I came out realizing I had responsibility to my family, to my country. I mean, all of these things are being lost as a result of this Marxism that has invaded the military.
And I stand with you, Frank, and with all of your speakers against this effort. I thought if I became president of the United States, I would close every diversity, equity and inclusion office in the entire government, military and the government of the United States, the civilian government of the United States. But you know, that's not enough, because another president could come along and undo everything you do.
Plus, you get a culture that starts to have a life of its own. As we found out in the last presidency, a life of its own that goes on regardless of what anybody says, that what's been referred to now as the Deep State. But that's got to be rooted out. It's going to take Congress. It's going to take the United States Senate. It's going to take action at a legislative level to ban this behavior. And certainly, an executive could do something about it because he could make clear that the culture of the military is to be focused on military readiness. I love that one mission. That's it. It's not it's not the color of your skin. It's not. And by the way, a separate from another candidate. I would ban transgenderism in the military. I would I would end it because I really want a constitutional amendment that defines gender as only two categories, male and female. And all this stuff that's going on in our military right now in our country and all the litigation and all the continual legal wrangling over this would come to a screeching, grinding halt because to me, all this transgender and gender bending nonsense in the military is a big distraction. Let me end with this. I am a pastor, as you pointed out, and I do have military members who are in my church or passed through my church. And I'll tell you what I'm hearing from them right now.
These long seminars intended to change the way they think about homosexuality, about gender, about race, about everything. One of your former speakers is right. This this is not training. This is indoctrination. They're trying to create a military that is based upon Marxist ideology of collectivism and race and class and all of that, as opposed to a cohesive unit of people determined to fight our wars, to keep our nation secure, to be willing to lay down their lives for the safety and security of the American people. So, this stuff is very real for me because I have people come to me and say, what do I do? I don't want to go to these seminars. It's a waste of time. And afterwards we all talk about it and say, what are they doing? But these elites have taken over and you are so right. I'm glad that you're doing this right. It is going to take action by the United States Senate, ultimately by the entire Congress, and a president who will sign legislation that will forever ban this kind of distraction, this kind of destructive distraction in our United States military. I'll say again, if by some miracle I were to serve as president of the United States right, I would certainly be calling upon you for foreign policy and military counsel and advice. And I would say any president who is not going to do that was not committed to doing that. It's already disqualified from ever serving in the office.